iSight Screensavers: Interact with your screensaver

by Josh Carr (Sep 17th 2009 12:00PM)

Some of you may have noticed that some of your screensavers don't work after upgrading to Snow Leopard. If you're running a 64-bit instance of the operating system, you won't be able to use most of your old third-party screensavers because they're ...

Star Trek LCARS Screensaver

by Scott McNulty (Jul 20th 2005 12:00PM)

I'm a geeky double threat, so watch out ladies. Not only do I know more about Macs than I probably should, I also happen to be a rabid Star Trek fan (that's Trekker to you, bub). meWHO's Star Trek screensaver turns your Mac into your very own starshi...

Decorate your Mac: Screensavers

by Dave Caolo (Dec 12th 2005 5:30PM)

Even though they aren't really necessary anymore, people still really like screensavers (myself included). Here are five holiday-themed screensavers that are either free or really inexpensive.A Very 3D Christmas. No, it's not as good as A Very Brady ...

The Weather Channel widget and screensaver

by Scott McNulty (Nov 22nd 2006 10:00AM)

I love the Weather Channel. There, I said it. I have a slight obession about the weather (though oddly enough I often do not wear weather appropriate clothing) and the Weather Channel has helped feed that obession for a long time. Now, I can get a ta...

A dynamic screensaver, DIY style

by Brett Terpstra (Apr 6th 2008 8:00AM)

Glenn Franxman at HackerMojo just put up a Python script that makes pictures pulled from MetroPulse into a screensaver. It's a mere 17 lines of code (which you can easily modify without knowing Python) that run as a cron job, downloading the images ...

In praise of the Leopard mosaic photo screensaver

by Michael Rose (Nov 12th 2007 8:00AM)

[For everyone who wanted a video of this screensaver, here you go.] It was important enough to make the 'Sparta' list, but I hadn't checked out the new mosaic mode for photo screensavers in Leopard until today -- and now I'm wondering where this has...

Convert Flash to Screensaver with FlashSaverMaker

by C.K. Sample, III (Aug 22nd 2005 10:30AM)

This post over at DownloadSquad discusses different ways to make your own Flash screensavers. On the Mac end of things, Victor points to FlashSaverMaker, which garners his "vote for Ugliest Site of the Year. But it works pretty well, and it's fr...

The Clear Day Screensaver for Mac is pretty and useful

by Mel Martin (Sep 6th 2013 7:00PM)

I've always felt that a screensaver should be useful and attractive. Clear Day Screensaver for Mac is both. This US$1.99 app lets you view the weather in more than 2.5 million cities via a beautifully rendered globe. Information includes the current ...

Select your screensaver with Screen Saver Menu

by Dave Caolo (Oct 14th 2005 8:00PM)

Here's a handy little tool. Screen Saver Menu adds an item to the Finder's menu bar that lets you quickly select and launch any installed screensaver. What's more, you can use it to browse your iPhoto albums and immediately launch any of those as a s...

iTunes screensaver gains playback in Lion

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Jul 22nd 2011 12:43PM)

You know that iTunes artwork screensaver in OS X? With Lion, you can finally play music with it. Go to System Preferences and choose Desktop & Screen Saver. Choose the iTunes Artwork screensaver, and make sure your display doesn't go to sleep b...

Hack A Day Made us a Screensaver!

by Laurie A. Duncan (May 4th 2005 11:57PM)

Our good friend Vincent over at Hack A Day got bored today. What's a Mac fan to do when he is bored? Well now that Tiger is out, the logical answer is... roll his own app! So Vincent whipped out Quartz Composer and busted out a hackaday.com RSS scree...

The Tao of Jobs, now in convenient screensaver form

by Laurie A. Duncan (Nov 9th 2005 12:30PM)

From the folks who brought us PodTunes and PodTunesColor, the simple iTunes controllers that look like an iPod, here comes iQuotes - Steve Jobs Quote Screensaver. iQuotes features the best quotes from our favorite Apple CEO, culled together in a &quo...

Make a screensaver for your iPod 5G

by Laurie A. Duncan (Oct 9th 2006 9:00AM)

I'm not sure why your iPod needs a screensaver, or whether this particular effect can really be called a screensaver, but since several of you have sent us this tip, there must be some interest in it! This how-to is so short I'm going to re-post it a...

How to: Make a Custom RSS Screensaver in Tiger

by Laurie A. Duncan (May 18th 2005 4:20PM)

Our pal Vincent from hack a day posted a great tutorial for Engadget yesterday on how to create your own customized RSS screensaver in Tiger with Quartz Composer.In the how-to, Vincent explains how to change the colors, backgrounds, posititioning, ef...

Terminal Tips: Make your Screensaver a desktop background

by Cory Bohon (Aug 25th 2008 8:30AM)

Have you ever wanted your screen saver to appear as a background image? Probably not. But if you like to show off to your Windows-using friends, then this tip can definitely help you out. By typing the following command into Terminal (Applications ...